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Standard air

Legion air player opens with Drone Plant and builds up economy with an Advanced Metal Extractor around 7 minutes, mostly holding off aircraft production early while supporting the team with transports and later Noctua bombers or other…

Usually no aircraft (77%)

#eco #air #team support · 20 distinct matches · 15 players · 88% of Legion Air games · team won 50% of 22 · Recently observed

HOW TO PLAY IT

Key timing: Advanced Metal Extractor by 7:11

  1. Take mex and wind, then drop a Legion Drone Plant by 1:22.
  2. Pump Noctua for scouting, escort duty, and shooting down leaks.
  3. Upgrade a mex to Advanced Metal Extractor to scale eco.
  4. Keep Noctua majority in the army; sprinkle in Mosquito and Martyr.
  5. Transition into fus if the game runs long, T2 factory optional.

Phase by phase

TYPICAL OF ITS 20 GAMES
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
PLAY THE OPENING

Follow the example game's first 6:00 step by step: what to build now, what comes next, and where it goes. At 1× it keeps pace with your own game.

  1. 1

    Up to the Legion Drone Plant

    Economy
    • Metal Extractor3Mex
    • Wind Turbine4Wind
    Order
    1. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plant after 3 mex, 4 winddone ~1:22, middle half 1:13–1:35

    Some games also: energy storage (36%)

    By 1:01 in all: 3 mex · 4 wind

    The example game in this phase · 3 steps
    1. Mex ×3
    2. Wind ×6
    3. Legion Drone PlantLegion Drone Plantdone 1:25 · typical 1:22
  2. 2

    Legion Drone Plant to 5:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine9Wind
    • Wind Turbine3Wind
    Builders
    • Construction Turret1 Con turret
    • Legion Construction Aircraft1 Legion Construction Aircraft
    Army
    • Noctua10 Noctua
    • Noctua2 Noctua for allies
    • Aeolus2 Aeolus for allies
    • Hippotes1 Hippotes for allies

    Some games also: energy storage (50%) · aeolus (50%) · mex (50%) · mex (36%) · martyr (32%)

    By 5:00 in all: 4 mex · 13 wind · 3 wind · 1 energy storage · 1 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 34 steps
    1. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    2. Wind
    3. NoctuaNoctuafor Beach sea
    4. HippotesHippotesfor Beach sea
    5. NoctuaNoctua
    6. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    7. AeolusAeolusfor Geo sea
    8. Legion Construction AircraftLegion Construction Aircraft
    9. Mex
    10. Energy storage
    11. Wind
    12. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    13. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    14. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    15. NoctuaNoctua
    16. Con turret
    17. Wind
    18. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo sea
    19. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    20. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    21. Wind
    22. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo sea
    23. Wind
    24. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    25. Wind
    26. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo sea
    27. Wind
    28. NoctuaNoctua ×2for Geo sea
    29. Wind
    30. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    31. Wind
    32. NoctuaNoctuafor Geo sea
    33. NoctuaNoctua
    34. Wind
  3. 3

    5:00 to 10:00

    Economy
    • Wind Turbine24Wind
    • Energy Converter9Converter
    Builders
    • Construction Turret3 Con turret
    Army
    • Noctua14 Noctua

    Some games also: wind (45%) · Legion Drone Plant (41%) · aeolus (36%) · mosquito (32%)

    By 10:00 in all: 4 mex · 27 wind · 17 wind · 10 converter · 1 energy storage · 5 con turret

    The example game in this phase · 63 steps
    1. Wind ×3
    2. Con turret
    3. Wind
    4. HippotesHippotes
    5. AeolusAeolusfor Pond
    6. Wind ×2
    7. AeolusAeolusfor Tech
    8. Wind ×2
    9. AeolusAeolus
    10. Wind ×5
    11. Con turret
    12. Wind ×2
    13. Converter ×8
    14. Con turret
    15. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mexdone 7:31 · typical 7:11
    16. Con turret
    17. AeolusAeolus
    18. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    19. AeolusAeolus
    20. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    21. AeolusAeolus
    22. CacophonyCacophony
    23. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    24. Fusion ReactorFusiondone 10:16
    25. MosquitoMosquito ×6
    26. Mex
    27. MosquitoMosquito ×5
    28. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    29. Mex
    30. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    31. Con turret
    32. NoctuaNoctua ×3
    33. Con turret
    34. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    35. Fusion ReactorFusion
    36. NoctuaNoctua ×8
    37. MosquitoMosquito ×10
    38. NoctuaNoctua ×15
    39. Con turret
    40. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    41. Con turret
    42. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    43. Con turret
    44. NoctuaNoctua
    45. Con turret
    46. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    47. Con turret
    48. NoctuaNoctua
    49. Con turret
    50. NoctuaNoctua ×9
    51. Radar TowerRadar Tower
    52. NoctuaNoctua ×4
    53. CacophonyCacophony
    54. NoctuaNoctua ×6
    55. Advanced Metal ExtractorT2 mex
    56. NoctuaNoctua ×2
    57. Con turret
    58. NoctuaNoctua
    59. Legion Advanced Aircraft PlantLegion Advanced Aircraft Plantdone 13:50
    60. Converter ×6
    61. ArbalestArbalest
    62. AjaxAjax ×2
    63. Con turret

Counts are medians over the build's games: half of them build more, half fewer. The example game is Rosie's (36 OS, 24/09/2026); pick another.

Team trades

IN AT LEAST 30% OF ITS GAMES

You hand over

  • Noctua2 Noctua to Geo or Geo sea or Techfirst at 1:51 · in 100% of games
  • Aeolus3 Aeolus to Tech or Geo seafirst at 2:07 · in 100% of games
  • Hippotes1 Hippotes to Beach sea or Pondfirst at 2:08 · in 64% of games

You get

  • Wind Turbine2 Wind from Geo sea or Beach seafirst at 1:34 · in 50% of games
  • Wind Turbine3 Wind from Beach sea or Geo seafirst at 1:46 · in 41% of games
  • Construction Bot1 Con bot from Tech or Geo seafirst at 2:24 · in 82% of games
  • Advanced Construction Bot1 T2 con bot from Techfirst at 6:05 · in 77% of games

How it plays out

Typical game of this build, running totals by minute

Metal produced

010k20k30k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Enemy metal destroyed

01k2k3k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

Own metal lost

01k2k3k
0:005:0010:0015:00

metal

22 games.

Show as table
ByMetal produced: This buildEnemy metal destroyed: This buildOwn metal lost: This build
1:0038700
2:0091500
3:00145300
4:0020131640
5:00270346113
6:003646117181
7:004939161232
8:006612280290
9:008967375380
10:0011360413405
11:0013719481585
12:00161436231070
13:00189189491633
14:002211116461895
15:002509020552085
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY

This is the role's own standard build, sitting at 50% team wins with steady but unspectacular kill/loss ratios by 15 minutes.

  • + Reliable, near-universal T2 con by 6:06 in the sample.
  • − Only 46 enemy metal destroyed by 5:00, very slow early impact.
THE EXAMPLE YOU ARE READING

Rosie

35.6 OS · 24/09/2026

Open source match ↗

7 received units · includes a constructor
556 metal received · 48606 energy received

Allied construction assistance is unknown. Timings are observations, not a promise of solo reproducibility.

Typical milestones

Legion Drone Plant1:22Middle 50%: 1:13–1:35 · n=22
Advanced Metal Extractor7:11Middle 50%: 6:46–7:30 · n=18

Played most by

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